A Disappointed Obama Voter

A Disappointed Obama Voter: "'[T]he Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reported in 2008,' last year, 'that 28% of Medicare beneficiaries looking for a primary care physician had trouble finding one...' That's primary care! We're not even talking emergency here! Twenty-eight percent of Medicare beneficiaries had trouble finding a doctor. 'The reasons are clear: A 2008 survey by the Texas Medical Association, for example, found that only 38% of primary-care doctors in Texas took new Medicare patients. The statistics are similar in New York state,' and in other states. 'More and more of my fellow doctors are turning away Medicare patients because of the diminished reimbursements and the growing delay in payments.' This is, by the way, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by a guy named Dr. Marc Segal, who is an internist, associate professor of medicine at NYU Langon Medical Center."